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This study aims to differentiate between grief care and grief therapy, introducing the Perspective Shift Technique for frozen grief.

April 28, 2026Open Access

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Clinical Application of the Perspective Shift Technique to Frozen Grief: From Grief Care to Grief Therapy

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This study aims to differentiate between grief care and grief therapy, introducing the Perspective Shift Technique for frozen grief.
Introduced Perspective Shift Technique (PST) as a structured therapy method.
Applied PST in clinical cases of frozen grief where narrative understanding is fixed.
Demonstrated the efficacy of PST through three clinical case studies.
PST effectively loosened fixed relational understanding in each case.
Clients were able to experience a renewed bond with the deceased.
The technique facilitated updates to relational memory, enabling emotional movement.

Abstract

Grief has long been understood primarily as a domain of care rather than therapy: a natural response to loss that unfolds over time, with the supporter's role being to accompany the process rather than to intervene in it. Even the Continuing Bonds framework (Klass, Silverman, 人格移動) is proposed as a structured grief therapy method for such cases. Within the rational optimal zone of the Three-Layer Rational Consciousness Zone Theory, PST guides the bereaved client to experientially inhabit the perspective of the deceased from the inside, generating the prediction error that enables relational memory to be updated. Three clinical cases are presented demonstrating that PST can loosen fixed relational understanding and allow the continuing bond with the deceased to be felt in a new form.

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Keiichi Murai (Mon,) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69f04e9b727298f751e727e4 https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19788696

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